Re: [PHP] PHP POS program
What about this, i looked on google and found this - http://www.google.com/search?q=point-of-sale%20program%20+%20phpsourceid=mozilla-searchstart=0start=0ie=utf-8oe=utf-8 http://www.google.com/search?q=point-of-sale%20program%20+%20phpsourceid=mozilla-searchstart=0start=0ie=utf-8oe=utf-8 And it also came up with : http://sourceforge.net/projects/phppointofsale/ And there are probably many more, or you could develope you own Best regards, Davy Obdam Angelo Zanetti wrote: Anyone know where I can download a demo point-of-sale program from? preferably written in php and preferably a point-of-sale designed for restaurants? any links etc will be great TIA Angelo -- --- Davy Obdam Web application developer Networking4all email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] internet: http://www.networking4all.com --- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] PHP POS program
Anyone know where I can download a demo point-of-sale program from? preferably written in php and preferably a point-of-sale designed for restaurants? any links etc will be great TIA Angelo
Re: [PHP] PHP POS program
Angelo Zanetti napsal(a): Anyone know where I can download a demo point-of-sale program from? preferably written in php and preferably a point-of-sale designed for restaurants? any links etc will be great TIA Angelo NO-FLAME This problem (POS) is too serious to be written in PHP(via browser). Maybe in PHP-GTK or in PHP as CLI... But I've never heard about it. /NO-FLAME -- Mirek Novak -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP POS program
Why is it too serious a problem? E-Commerce sites are written in PHP - there is not a big difference except that the POS system does not even necessarily have to be online! I think that is a bit of a short sighted view don't you? Just because you have not seen it done does not mean that it cannot/has not been done... I don't mean to be a prick about it -it is just that there really is no reason that it could not be done in php. It is not a difficult system to do. On 7/16/03 8:25 AM, Mirek Novak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Angelo Zanetti napsal(a): Anyone know where I can download a demo point-of-sale program from? preferably written in php and preferably a point-of-sale designed for restaurants? any links etc will be great TIA Angelo NO-FLAME This problem (POS) is too serious to be written in PHP(via browser). Maybe in PHP-GTK or in PHP as CLI... But I've never heard about it. /NO-FLAME -- Cheers Mike Morton * * Tel: 905-465-1263 * Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Indeed, it would not be an exaggeration to describe the history of the computer industry for the past decade as a massive effort to keep up with Apple. - Byte Magazine Given infinite time, 100 monkeys could type out the complete works of Shakespeare. Win 98 source code? Eight monkeys, five minutes. -- NullGrey -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP POS program
On Wednesday, Jul 16, 2003, at 15:58 Europe/Helsinki, Mike Morton wrote: Why is it too serious a problem? E-Commerce sites are written in PHP - there is not a big difference except that the POS system does not even necessarily have to be online! I think that is a bit of a short sighted view don't you? Just because you have not seen it done does not mean that it cannot/has not been done... I don't mean to be a prick about it -it is just that there really is no reason that it could not be done in php. It is not a difficult system to do. Hi, It is NOT possible since web browser cannot print row ASCII to serial POS printer (PHP scripts run on server and output Web pages to client machines). * * Best Regards --- Andrei Verovski * * Personal Home Page * http://snow.prohosting.com/guru4mac * Mac, Linux, DTP, Development, IT WEB Site * -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] PHP POS program
I'm developing one actually :-) -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Angelo Zanetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 13:57 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: [PHP] PHP POS program Anyone know where I can download a demo point-of-sale program from? preferably written in php and preferably a point-of-sale designed for restaurants? any links etc will be great TIA Angelo -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
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Sure - that is assuming that is how you want to print it! And even then - given the power of PHP - surely you could do a socket program to do it. Anyhow - printing to a POS printer - how mandatory does that have to be? If we all remained slaves to how it is done in the past, then we will never move to the future. And BTW - there is no such thing as CANNOT be done, only that some one has not done it yet On 7/16/03 9:04 AM, Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday, Jul 16, 2003, at 15:58 Europe/Helsinki, Mike Morton wrote: Why is it too serious a problem? E-Commerce sites are written in PHP - there is not a big difference except that the POS system does not even necessarily have to be online! I think that is a bit of a short sighted view don't you? Just because you have not seen it done does not mean that it cannot/has not been done... I don't mean to be a prick about it -it is just that there really is no reason that it could not be done in php. It is not a difficult system to do. Hi, It is NOT possible since web browser cannot print row ASCII to serial POS printer (PHP scripts run on server and output Web pages to client machines). * * Best Regards --- Andrei Verovski * * Personal Home Page * http://snow.prohosting.com/guru4mac * Mac, Linux, DTP, Development, IT WEB Site * -- Cheers Mike Morton * * Tel: 905-465-1263 * Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Indeed, it would not be an exaggeration to describe the history of the computer industry for the past decade as a massive effort to keep up with Apple. - Byte Magazine Given infinite time, 100 monkeys could type out the complete works of Shakespeare. Win 98 source code? Eight monkeys, five minutes. -- NullGrey -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP POS program
Angelo Zanetti napsal(a): Anyone know where I can download a demo point-of-sale program from? preferably written in php and preferably a point-of-sale designed for restaurants? any links etc will be great NO-FLAME This problem (POS) is too serious to be written in PHP(via browser). Maybe in PHP-GTK or in PHP as CLI... But I've never heard about it. /NO-FLAME Yeah, we all know you can't write serious programs in PHP. ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP POS program
Mike Morton napsal(a): Why is it too serious a problem? E-Commerce sites are written in PHP - there is not a big difference except that the POS system does not even necessarily have to be online! I think that is a bit of a short sighted view don't you? Just because you have not seen it done does not mean that it cannot/has not been done... I don't mean to be a prick about it -it is just that there really is no reason that it could not be done in php. It is not a difficult system to do. Hi, - Of course, it can be done, but will U find someone, who will ever use it? I've worked in a company which has about 170 supermarkets and small food stores and there we had a war with our POS software supplier , so I think, I can tell I know something about it It is much more complext then it seems to be. E-Commerce is about sitting at home and clicking mouse, shop assistants has much more stress then a person clicking through e-shop - using php/web based interface can be BIG problem due to nature of the browser. - POS is live system in opposition to the e-commerce which is only viewing stock and sending orders. - POS must be as simple and stupidity proof as possible, the other thing is mouse, POS must be controlled via keyboard. And AFAIK all POS systems, which were written under Windows had no succes because of the user interface. So I'm for 5 years out of this branche but as I can see in supermarkets, there are still good old MSDOS applications. My point of view has not much to do with PHP but with user interface, In php can be done very interesting things, I agree, for example I've written daemon using pure PHP, and it runs for 170 days continuously and sending e-mails from our site. On 7/16/03 8:25 AM, Mirek Novak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Angelo Zanetti napsal(a): Anyone know where I can download a demo point-of-sale program from? preferably written in php and preferably a point-of-sale designed for restaurants? any links etc will be great TIA Angelo -- Mirek Novak Anima Publishers, s.r.o. Prilucka 360, Zlin 760 01 Czech Republic tel/fax: +420577219132 GSM:+420603807837 jabberID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 119499448 AUTO.CZ http://www.auto.cz NEWS.AUTO.CZ http://news.auto.cz FORMULE1.CZ http://www.formule1.cz -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
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Hi, And AFAIK all POS systems, which were written under Windows had no succes because of the user interface. So I'm for 5 years out of this branche but as I can see in supermarkets, there are still good old MSDOS applications. There are plenty of good windows based systems. There are also plenty of good web-based systems. To say that only MS-DOS applications can do POS properly is kind of niave. -Dan Joseph -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP POS program
CPT John W. Holmes napsal(a): Angelo Zanetti napsal(a): Anyone know where I can download a demo point-of-sale program from? preferably written in php and preferably a point-of-sale designed for restaurants? any links etc will be great NO-FLAME This problem (POS) is too serious to be written in PHP(via browser). Maybe in PHP-GTK or in PHP as CLI... But I've never heard about it. /NO-FLAME Yeah, we all know you can't write serious programs in PHP. ---John Holmes... Please don't tell to my boss ... -- Mirek Novak -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP POS program
Mirek: - Of course, it can be done, but will U find someone, who will ever use it? I've worked in a company which has about 170 supermarkets and small food stores and there we had a war with our POS software supplier , so I think, I can tell I know something about it It is much more complext then it seems to be. E-Commerce is about sitting at home and clicking mouse, shop assistants has much more stress then a person clicking through e-shop Tell that to Amazon/Dell! E-Commerce systems are not as simple as may first appear either - but I do understand that while I may have the e-commerce experience, you do have more POS experience than me :) - using php/web based interface can be BIG problem due to nature of the browser. Depends on the application - POS is live system in opposition to the e-commerce which is only viewing stock and sending orders. Untrue - E-commerce as you talk about it here is small shop purchasing - e-commerce actually encompasses a much larger facet of operations from fulfillment, CRM, loyalty, etc. - POS must be as simple and stupidity proof as possible, the other thing is mouse, POS must be controlled via keyboard. And AFAIK all POS systems, which were written under Windows had no succes because of the user interface. So I'm for 5 years out of this branche but as I can see in supermarkets, there are still good old MSDOS applications. Any system should be simple and stupid proof, from a website to a CRM or fulfillment application. As far as POS being controlled via keyboard - again, depends on the application. You are talking about the point of view from a supermarket/multiple registers, the original question was about a restaurant POS. that is a big difference! :) I am not saying that PHP is the be all and end all for this problem - but what I am saying is that it CAN be done - not necessarily that it should be done. A better solution would be say build the interface in PHP - the back end in MySQL (cause we all know that rocks ;) ) and the printer connection in C or Java. That is just my opinion, which has been proven (even on this list! ;) ) to be wrong on occasion g My point of view has not much to do with PHP but with user interface, In php can be done very interesting things, I agree, for example I've written daemon using pure PHP, and it runs for 170 days continuously and sending e-mails from our site. On 7/16/03 8:25 AM, Mirek Novak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Angelo Zanetti napsal(a): Anyone know where I can download a demo point-of-sale program from? preferably written in php and preferably a point-of-sale designed for restaurants? any links etc will be great TIA Angelo -- Cheers Mike Morton * * Tel: 905-465-1263 * Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Indeed, it would not be an exaggeration to describe the history of the computer industry for the past decade as a massive effort to keep up with Apple. - Byte Magazine Given infinite time, 100 monkeys could type out the complete works of Shakespeare. Win 98 source code? Eight monkeys, five minutes. -- NullGrey -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP POS program
On Wednesday 16 July 2003 19:57, Angelo Zanetti wrote: Anyone know where I can download a demo point-of-sale program from? preferably written in php and preferably a point-of-sale designed for restaurants? any links etc will be great freshmeat.net -- Jason Wong - Gremlins Associates - www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design Hosting * Internet Intranet Applications Development * -- Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general -- /* Never argue with a women when she's tired- or rested -- Murphy's Laws on Sex n41 */ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP POS program
- POS must be as simple and stupidity proof as possible, Agree. the other thing is mouse, POS must be controlled via keyboard. Not necessarily, many POS systems use a 'soft' keyboard in the form of a touch screen. Such a system is easily do-able using a web interface. -- Jason Wong - Gremlins Associates - www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design Hosting * Internet Intranet Applications Development * -- Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general -- /* The universe is all a spin-off of the Big Bang. */ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
